right now i don't know what colin powell stands for. i don't know what obama's doing, he agrees with or disagrees with. well, he did hint he doesn't like all of the spending, but then last december he said american people want higher taxes and bigger government. that's not republicanism. >> larry: go. >> yeah, what i said that he's referring to was not the american people wanting higher taxes and more government. they don't. who does? but the republican party can't live on a slogan that says we want limited government and then they never do anything to limit the government. the deficit increased during the previous eight republican years and we created more government, not less government. what the american people want is effective government. they want government that works. they want a health care system that takes care of them. they want homeland security. so i believe what the republican party ought to focus on is limited effective government with the emphasis being on effective and not just using slogans like limited but meanwhile,

let's continue our conversation with information secretary of state, colin powell. we're about to have a supreme court nomination, confirmation hearing and it is clear now from all involved that we're going to have a spirited conversation about affirmative action. it's an issue you have discussed many times over the course of your life. any advice for the senators and both parties. let me ask you first, do you know judge sotomayor? >> no, i do not. she seems like a gifted and accomplished woman. she certainly has an open and liberal bent of mind but that's not disqualifying. she has a judicial record that seems to be balanced and tries to follow the law. so i hope we do have a spirited set of hearings. and supreme court confirmation hearings tend to always meet that standard. and she ought to be asked about everything from both the left and the right. what we can't continue to have is to have somebody like a judge sotomayor who is announced, and based on one simple tricky but nonetheless case at the supreme court has now decided have her called a racist, and she oug

we begin today, though, with soldier turned diplomat colin powell. he once sevened in the job admiral mullen now holds and was secretary of state in the bush administration. general powell is out of government but still eager to serve especially young americans in struggling house holds and broken schools. >> america's promise is your passion. a lot of debate about how much of this is the government's job and how much is private citizens and private organizations doing kmumtd service. >> it's a job that belongs to as of us and not any one of us can solve the problem. when we created american's promise back with president clinton to and all of the presidents they said a country as wealthy as we are should not have kids in disparate kids. it focused getting mentors, giving them a says place to go, make sure they had a healthy start in life, make sure they were acquiring a skill to give them a job and finally making sure that youngsters early in life got a chance to serve others. that's what american's promise has been doing for the past 12 years and it'

>> larry: tonight, colin powell exclusive, he voted for barack obama. how does he think the president's doing six months into the job? >> people are starting to get a little uneasy at the number of federal initiatives and the amount of money. >> larry: his first public comments on the arrest of harvard professor henry louis gates. >> when you're being asked something by a police officer, being detained by a police officer, cooperate. >> larry: takes on the future of the gop and sarah palin. >> i don't think she was ready to be president of the united states last fall. >> larry: we asked him about rush limbaugh. >> you can't tell me i can't be in the party. i decide what party i'm going to be in. >> larry: plus his thoughts on afghanistan and north korea. >> they are some of the best toughest negotiators i've ever dealt with. >> larry: colin powell in his own words next on "larry king live." good evening, he's an old friend, great to be here in washington with him. general colin powell, former secretary of state, former chairman of the joint chiefs and t

is the model republican, is when i say yo should leave the par and formed the colin powell party. i don't know how you have a man who campaigned for the democratic candidate, endorsed the democratic candidate, did so at a time to destroy john mccain. how can a man who went all the way in the bank for the democratic candidate is the ideal republican? how can it be said that that is where we build our base? show me the book in the library of great moderates in american history. moderates don't have an opinion until where they decide where the consensus is. if that is the future of the republican party, that is where there's been talk of a third- party. let colin powell and whoever else, let them lead the republican party -- leave the republican party. i don't know with what he agrees or disagrees with on a bomb as policies. -- on obama's policies. greta: next, russia says that someone is terrified of sarah palin and is trying to -- rush says that someone is terrified of sarah palin and is trying to destroy her. (announcer) roundup extended control does two jobs... at once. one: kill

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tonight, in an exclusive interview on cnn's "larry king live," general colin powell talk about it with larry. powell is a former chairman of the joint chiefs, former national security adviser and former secretary of state, but he says even he is not immune. >> were you ever racially profiled? >> yes, many times. >> you ever bringing anner to it? >> of course. but you know, anger is best controlled. and sure i got mad. i got mad when as a national security adviser, the president of the united states, i went down to meet somebody at reagan national airport and nobody recognized, nobody thought i could possibly be the national security adviser to the president. i was just a black guy at reagan national airport. and it was only when i went up to the counter and said is my guest here who is waiting for me did somebody say, oh to, you're general powell. it was inconceivable to him that a black guy could be the national security adviser. > how do you deal with things like that? >> you just suck it up. what are you going to do? it was a teaching point for him. yes, i'm the national security ad

i have gotten e-mails calling colin powell all kinds of names which shocks me. in the '9, everybody thought he was going to be our first black president. he was unshakeable. >> to be continued. clarence, thanks so much for coming in and sharing. >>> and to the white house, president trying to reassure working middle class they will not be left behind as his health care debate sweeps washington, town hall focusing on explaining how the overhaul will mean more security, stability for working families according to him, as senate finance chairman max baucus has emerged, seen his shadow perhaps. just announced that a bipartisan panel has a draft bill on the table, at least, cost below the president's $1 trillion target, according to the congressional budget office. >> we are bending the cost curve the right way that is a significant accomplishment. in fairness, because we have this rule, nothing decided in everything is is decided. we can't really say the conclusion has been reached because in truth, we are not done. >> they are not done yet. that is the big story at

colin powell thinks so.ecretary of state is saying now about the spenting programs. >> after he endorsed obama. something you have to see to believe. sea lion hijacks a police boat and takes over the controls. he wasn't in a costume either. video after the break. brian: naval academy inducts first female midshipman. beyonce and jz crazy in love. i believe they are. . . taking its rightful place in a long line of amazing performance machines. this is the new e-coupe. >> good morning. two california deputies were trying to move a sea lion to safety when suddenly the tables turned. the sea lion wandered into the boat's control room and took the captain's seat. they coaxed him back into the water, but after a very interesting ride. >> the orange county sheriff officer james slicker joins us now. james, how did he get into the control room? >> we were trying to get him off a public dock where a sea lion had bit a couple of kids, and we tried to call the appropriate agencies that weren't available, so that left us

you can catch more of john king's interview with colin powell today on state of the union.that starts at 9:00 a.m. eastern on our sister network cnn. >>> hi there, i'm robin meade. you know, we salute the troops every weekday on "morning express" with me robin meade. we're doing it on the weekend, too. today is for specialist brendan. he's been involved since 16 and now a combat in iraq. maybe you have someone in the service and want to salute them. go to cnn.com/robin. watch for salutes on "morning express" with robin meade from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> robin has a special message for our troops and their families on this july 4th weekend. you can check it out. just go to our website. go to cnn.com/robin and click on the ling to a special july 4th salute from robin. >>> new orleans musicians are paying tribute to the king of pop. they are talking about the difference michael jackson made in their lives. this is hln. ♪ she's dancing ♪ watch her get down ♪ >> who is that >>> a spectacular sight, america's annual birthday blowout in the skies around the country. we

in massachusetts. -- last night. .colin powell wade impeach -- colin powell weighed in on the race controversy in massachusetts. on the pinhead front, we are living in the age of shameless confrontation. a new video services on youtube, featuring naked ladies strutting their stuff in california. it is apparently a marketing ploy for the new guitar hero of video game. -- guitar hero video game. you make the call. glenn beck, topping the letter flow, as the often does. wichita, kan. -- as he often does. because the investigation has already been done. the misuse things in new york city. politics as usual -- the misuse things. -- they misused things. but republicans were in power, sir, so you sound like a partisan in this. i think that is a good call, tracy. perhaps, sir, but that is not something to aspire to. lucky we are on again at 10:00 central, sir. i appreciate your reading my book. i want to be grammatic correct, because courtney friel is the grammar police. how about our website? www.foxnews.com/o'reilly, and please email us with pity comments, oreilly@foxnews.com. here is a great word o

and colin powell takes the stand in the arrest against a popular black scholar. >> the police raided a pawn shop. we will sort out the in fr >> barakat, a police have -- fairfax county police are investigating the attack on a woman. it was not a random crime. this comes a day after police say they will review surveillance video captured outside of her home. outagt aed theo tousands of t ah dollars of merchandise wheeled out of her business. a reporter has more on the controversy. >> it is part of a crackdown on theft by police. the owner says what happened to him is criminal. >> police kept pulling items out of her pawnshop. there was a $3,000 bike to tools to a flat screen televisions. >> police knew excutly when we bought it and how much we pay for it. >> police say that some of these items are stolen goods from bi name retail stores and sold to the owner. >> some businesses look t the items and said some of the items belong to businesses in the county. >> th owner watched as they pulled item aftertl item out of the pawnshop. he says he did nothing wrong. police said 30 days to det

i asked president bush "did you ask colin powell for his recommendation on war?" and president bush said "no, i didn't." >> rose: well, did colin powell do everything he could and should have in order to make the president clear what his opinion on it was? >> well, the president said "i knew what he thought." but when you get into the details and god is in the details here, powell's objections were voiced very early and they were in the context of, well, let's consider the ramifications of this. if we invade iraq it will take all the oxygen out of the air in foreign policy. it will dominate everything politically. it was not an argument against war. powell, as you know, very strongly held the belief that presidents decide on wars, not generals or.... >> rose: or diplomats. >> but i'm sure that you f you got colin powell on sodium pentathol, the truth serum, he would acknowledge that his arguments got diluted in the process and he probably should have been more aggressive in going to the president and saying "we really haven't thought about the consequences of this

-- colin powell weighed in on the race controversy in massachusetts. on the pinhead front, we are living in the age of shameless confrontation. a new video services on youtube, featuring naked ladies strutting their stuff in california. it is apparently a marketing ploy for the new guitar hero of video game. -- guitar hero video game. you make the call. glenn beck, topping the letter flow, as the often does. wichita, kan. -- as he often does. because the investigation has already been done. the misuse things in new york city. politics as usual -- the misuse things. -- they misused things. but republicans were in power, sir, so you sound like a partisan in this. i think that is a good call, tracy. perhaps, sir, but that is not something to aspire to. lucky we are on again at 10:00 central, sir. i appreciate your reading my book. i want to be grammatic correct, because courtney friel is the grammar police. how about our website? www.foxnews.com/o'reilly, and please email us with pity comments, oreilly@foxnews.com. here is a great word of the day. when wr

colin powell gave his opinion what happened. the former secretary of state sat down with larry king earlier. powell's remarks about the gates arrest and his own experience with police are quite candid. here he is. >> teaching point for young people, especially, not for doctor gates. but for young people, especially, is when the police are looking into something and if you're involved in it in one way or the other, cooperate. don't make the situation more difficult. i think in this case the situation was made more difficult on the part of the cambridge police department. once they felt they had to bring dr. gates out of the house and to handcuff him, i would have thought at that point, adult supervision would have stepped in and said, okay, look, it is his house, come on. let's not take this further. take the handcuffs off. good night, mr. gates. >> larry: were you ever racially profiled? >> yes, many times. >> larry: did you ever bring anger to it? >> of course. anger is best controlled. sure i got mad. i got mad when i -- as a

their marriage, his rage, and the disturbing letter she received from him in jail. >>> later, colin powellaking out about the arrest of henry louis gates jr. we'll hear what powell has to say about that and his own experiences of being racially profiled. >>> emotional testimony today in the hearing of an accused killer of a kansas abortion provider. wearing a jacket and tie, the defendant, scott roeder. now, one man says he was with tiller at a snack table when roeder allegedly opened fire. let's listen. >> when i was talking to dr. tiller, and making kind of small talk when i noticed the door -- that door that would be on the left there, open up. the gentleman that had exited the door had walked over and put a gun right up to george's head and shot it, and i -- i wasn't for sure because it wasn't a loud -- it was a pop, a loud pop, but i wasn't sure if it was a cap gun or what. then george fell. and i just said, in my mind, you know, oh, my god. i couldn't believe what i was seeing. it was surreal. >> surreal and violent. roeder pleaded not guilty today to murder. while he was in the cour

yes, colin powell.ht how he talked about how professor gates should have been perhaps a little bit more patient in the situation. >> saying gates was wrong? >> i'm saying perhaps in th instance waited a while, come outside, talked to the officer. he should have reflected on whether or not it's the time to make that big of a deal. just home from china, just home from new york. all he wanted to do was get to bed. his door was jammed. so he was in a move where -- >> what about those who says he brings the whole history into that body of a black movement. >> that may well be the case. but i still think it might have well been resolved in a different manner if we didn't have the verbal altercation between the two of them. when you're faced with an officer trying to do his job and get to the bottom of something, this is not the time to get in an argument with them. i was taught that as a child. you don't argue with the police officer. in our schools today, in order to make sure that we don't have things escal

colin powell being told in 2004 ... >> host: what happened with bush? hayes said i don't want to take over the world or go into countries. >> guest: let me say this very quickly if i can get to the chapter very quickly, i want to read, it is not here i can more or less remember listen to this quote by george w. bush. this is what he said in 2000 to seven you keep looking at it and i will cover with these words. i have found the year 2001 through 2009 intensely painful politically as a conservative be cut as a great coalition had a great movement, and a fractured dropped like a pane of glass by people who have not built that coalition. i thought the guise of building and the '60s, '70s, '80s, i saw how hard they work and how hard it was to bring it together. in a program hard to see were not allowed to say it was breaking. it was a terrible time. >> guest: i know. let me read this from george w. bush in 2000. we must me judicious in their use of the military. we will fight only when it is in the vital interest of the united states when our mission is cle

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plus what, general colin powell has to say about mr. afternoon delight himself, rush limbaugh in the "hardball" sideshow. first, fox news host glen beck said this early tuesday about president obama. >> this president i think has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep seated hatred for white people or the white culture. i don't know what it is. >> fox was so concerned by that that it issued a statement separating itself from it. here's a statement from bill schein, the senior vice president of programming for fox news. "during fox & friends this morning, glen beck expressed a personal opinion which represented his own views, not those of the fox news network." that's interesting they put that out. former congressman kweisi mfume and joan walsh. thank you for join us tonight. glen beck also called president obama, let me get this quote, can we move that quote up there right now? move up the quote. let's listen to it. >> i'm not saying that he doesn't like white people. i'm saying he has a problem. he has a,

colin powell is in that discussion accepting what the police report said henry louis gates said. henry louis gates says he did not say those things. there is now no proof that he said anything provocative and everyone is assuming that the crowley account is accurate. we have no right to do that. >> lawrence, i think colin powell is doing what the president and others have tried to do, finding a happy ending. we sure see the politicians trying to make this a happy ending because it's a difficult conversation. >>> still ahead, from the wide stance to the business world, we're going to tell you what former senator larry craig is up to these days. >>> but first, bulking up for a world class competition. that's it. look at that. you're watching msnbc. my doctor told me something i never knew. as we get older, our bodies become... less able to absorb calcium. he recommended citracal. it's a different kind of calcium. calcium citrate. with vitamin d... for unsurpassed absorption, to nourish your bones. we call the bunches in honey bunches of oats the prize in the box. well, now there's

and an historic moment that will garner international attention. >>> former secretary of state colin powellays that president obama's agenda maybe to ambitious and two expensive. powell says he worries that the president is trying to tackle too many big issues at one time and she offered advice. >> i think one of the challenges that president obama has now is he has so many things on the trabl table. these are issues that american people find important. health care and other issues. one of the cautions that has to be given to the president, you can't have the so many things on the table that you continue absorb it all. and we can't pay for it all. >> powell says he has a very good relationship with president obama. >>> the organization of american states has suspended honduras president. zelaya says he will return today. he called on supporters at the airport. he said supporters will be with him. he was forced to costa rica last sunday. and mick letty was sworn ins a president. >>> in 1990 washington, d.c. mayor marion berry was arrested and now he has another runnin with the law. >>> a pos

colin powell being told in 2004 -- >> host: what happened with bush? bush ran in 2000 saying look, i don't want to take over the world and going to countries -- >> guest: can i say this very quick, i know this very quick if i can get to the chapter really quickly i want to read -- it's not your. look at this, i can more or less remember, but listen to this by george w. bush, it will be worth the family, i promise. this is what george w. bush said in 2000. >> host: you keep looking at it and i will cover these words. it seems to me i have found the years 2001, 2,009 intensely painful politically because as a conservative i saw a great coalition and a great movement fracture dropped like the pain of glass and splintered by people who hadn't built that coalition. i saw the guys who belted in the 60's, 70's and 80's. on saw how hard they worked and how hard it was to bring them together. it broke my heart to see it broken and it broke my heart to see you were not allowed to say that it was breaking. it was terrible. >> guest: this is george w. bush in 2000

colin powell was being told in -- >> host: what happened with bush. bush ran in 2000 saying i don't want to take over the world. >> guest: can i say this really quick? i can do this very quick. if i can get to the chapter really quickly. i want to read you -- it's right here. >> host: can we. >> guest: look at this. i can remember. listen to this quote by george w. bush and this is what george w. bush said in 2000. >> host: you keep looking at and it i will cover with these words. seems to me -- i have found the years 2001-2009 intensely painful politically as a conservative because i feel a great coalition and a great movement fractured, dropped like a pane of glass and splintered by people who had not built that coalition i saw the guys who built it in the '60s, '70s, and '80s, i saul how hard it was to bring it together. itsit broke my heart to see it broken and it broke my heart to see that you were not allowed to say that it was breaking. >> guest: right. >> host: it was a terrible lie. >> guest: i know. and let me read. this is george w. bush in

former secretary of state colin powell thinks cambridge police and harvard professor gates could havehandled this a lot better. he appeared on cnn's "larry king live" last night. the police escalated the situation beyond a reasonable level but the professor who powell called skip should have been more patient. >> you saying gates was wrong? >> i'm saying skip perhaps in this instance might have waited a while, come outside, talked to the officer, and that might have been the end of it. he should have reflected on whether or not it was the time to make that big of a deal. >> powell also said he's been the victim of racial profiling, including when he was the national security advisor to reagan. james crowley and gates will meet with president obama at the white house for a beer or two. >>> agreement on capitol hill that would clear the way for the health care reform bill. happening as the president continues his road tour. pushing for an overhaul of the nation's ailing million system. back in washington the final holdouts within the democratic party have signed onto the house version o

. >>> former secretary of state colin powell says possible's agenda may be too ambitious and two expensive. in an interview. powell says he worries that the president is trying to tackle too many big issues at one time and he offered some advice. >> i think one of the challenges that president obama has now is he's got so many things on the table, and these are issues that the american people find important. health care and so many other issues, but i think one of the indications that has to be given to the president, and i've talked to some of his people about this, is you can't have so many things on the table that you can't absorb it all and you can't pay for it all. >>> despite his concerns he says he has a very good relationship with president obama. >>> the organization of mesh states has suspended honduras over the ousture of their president. he says several latin american leaders and reporters will be with him. he was forced to costa rica lat sunday and roberto micheletti was sworn in as interim president. he says he'll arrest zelaya if he returns. >>> in washtds former d.c. mayor

she respects both professor gates and the cambridge pd. >>> the former secretary of state colin powell says the cambridge police and harvard professor, henry gates, could have handled this arrest much better. powell appeared on "larry king live" last night and he said the police escalated the situation beyond a reasonable level but the professor should have been more patient. >> you are saying gates was wrong? >> i am saying that skip, perhaps in this instance, might have waited a while. come outside. talked to the officer and that might have been the end of it. i think he should have reflected on whether or not this was the time to make that big a deal. >> powell said he's been a victim of racial profiling, including when he was national security adviser to president ronald reagan. gates and sergeant crowley, the officer who made the arrest will meet tomorrow at the white house with president obama and share a beer or two. >>> federal authorities are looking for an eighth suspect in connection with an alleged north carolina terror group. daniel boyd, a drywall contractor and his two s

colin powell speaks out on the issue. we'll play more of that, coming up.ow, a different point of view coming from him. >> he's making the mistake that everybody makes the mistake. everybody makes the same mistake. i haven't seen "morning joe" because i live on the west coast, but i assume the mistake hasn't been here. >> lawrence o'donald joins us. what is it some. >> colin powell, similar to the mistake he made working in the bush administration, when he believed the reports about weapons of mass destruction. everything he says is based on a verbatim belief that sergeant crowley's report is true. skip gates does not say the same thing about the event that crowley says. only crowley says that there was this altercation, as powell refers to. so, since nothing, nothing in the police report has been proven true by the police tapes, none of it has been supported by the police tapes, let's all step back and admit we don't know who said what to whom. >> oh, my gosh, i agree with that completely, lawrence o'donnell. good morning! you can go home now. >> thank you

with've got general colin powell on. he'll talk about his commitment to community service.ome questions about the obama agenda, specifically the price. we'll also talk to admiral mike mullen. he's the top military officer. he'll help us break down with my magic map the missions in afghanistan and iraq going forward. it's a fun packed day on "state of the union." >> the map travels with you? >> we can travel the map if we have to but that's classified. >> jong king coming up in 15 minutes, top of the hour, "state of the union." thank you. >>> all right. if you're going to audition for the show "meamerican idol," youe got to have faith. any contestant, you've got to have faith to think you're going to make it. but there's another show ow there with the whole premise of "american idol," but here's the twist. they perform gospel music. that's where the real faith comes in. it's a reality show called "gospel dream." you'll recognize one of the hosts. her name is kimberly locke. take a listen to my conversation with her. >> the show, it's one dream. >> one dream. >> it's very gen

big story, colin powell and me and nobodwere at a party, nobods dancing. three years in a row, we'd do the dance. i said, this is unbelievable. a jew iand a black in the house of the "washington post," and he said, you're jewish? tavis: i will always remember when you celebrated a major anniversary on cnn, bryant gumble was interviewing you on your set and he was asking you the one person you would be that you would want to interview, your answer was, god, and i would ask him, did he have a son. that is a powerful -- >> think of it. i t could be -- it could be funny or serious. you have him next tuesday. i have god on tuesday, booked for tuesday, for th we could pre him. tavis: for the hour. >> then paris hilton is there, you have to bump god to thursday. he can wait. then you have him. first question, did you have a child? now, from that answer, we can move society, think of all that. supposing he said yes, and he says chrsit is the beg-- christ in the beginning. then he says no, ethical chaos. then he says a woman. aye. madonna was her name. what would t

a former -- colin powell.ormer state employee in new york was fired because of a facebook posting where she called professor gates a racist. most troubling was her response to another comment. racial profiling exists. but for a good reason. i will not read that. let's move on. they were calling people racist. the spokesman said that stringer had accepted the resignation. at the top of the show we told you about the woman whose 911 call led to the controversy. it has been well established that she was just doing the responsible thing. she still became a target because of all that stuff that came out in the police report. she insists that she did not say it in the front yard. >> i was not planning to make a public statement. after the media managed to reach my mother, i thought that i had better speak for myself. the criticism was so painful for me, difficult. i was afraid to say anything. people called me racist. they said that icaza all the turmoil that followed. -- i caused all the turmoil that followed. they

i understand that they cut this, but i believe in what colin powell said, let's start small. have the feeling that when this goes to the senate finance committee, we may be starting small. what do you sank? --

that pregnant women with the virus should take anti-viral drug. >>> former secretary of state colin powellthinks that harvard professor henry gates could have handled the arrest better. powell's response on "larry king live" is popular. the police escalated the situation beyond a reasonable leve level. he says gates should have been more patient. >> i'm saying that he might have waited a while. come outside, talked to the officer, and that might have been the end of it. i think he should have reflected on whether or not this was the time to make that big a deal. >> powell also said that he has been the victim of racial profiling including when he was a national security adviser to president reagan. gates and sergeant james crowley, the officer who made the arrest will meet with president obama at the white house tomorrow. >>> let me check on your time here. how are you at six minutes after the hour? brett favre is not coming back. at least that's what he's saying today. here with a little more is ray on that. bob is saying, hey, only 7:02 in the morning. you have time. >> time to change hi

larry king had an exclusive interview with former secretary of state colin powell. they will be talking about this dispute. >> i'm saying he might have waited, come out and talked to the officer and that would have been the end of it. i think he should have reflected whether it was this big a deal. he was just home from china, new york. all he wanted to do was go to bed. his door was jammed. >> there are those that say he brings the whole body into the history of the black movement. >> that might be the case. but i still think it might well have been resolved in a different manner if we didn't have this verbal altercation between the two of them. >> one of the folks that should be at the white house between professor gates and crowley and the president isn't going to be there, officer kelly king who strongly criticized the president last week. >> it's unfortunate. i supported him. i voted for him. i will not again. >> well, don lemon broke that story first on lou dobbs last friday. >>> new developments in the controversy over the president's birth certificate. yeste

what's interesting is to hear the demural from colin powell earlier on this show saying i'm very concerned about this. he's a strong obama supporter. probably the biggest problem of all in terms of testimony is these numbers at that keep coming up on unemployment, jobless, unemployment, failure of growth and the congressional budget office numbers, which i think really were staggering pointses out the cost of some of the things barack obama proposed. george bush's deficits look like rounding errors compared to obama. >> i disagree strongly with that. how can you say that george bush's deficits look like rounding errors when we say -- when the deficit doubled under george bush? we know that president obama came into office with a deficit this fiscal year $1 trillion. in the last recession it took 24 months before the jobs came back and in 1991, 32 months. we've had a very serious credit problem. what president obama was trying to do and continues to do is to try to get the credit market unfrozen and to get manufacturing jobs moving again because that's where we've lost many of these jobs. t

jen general colin powell, former secretary of state made his first public comments last night on this show. take a look. >> are you saying gates was wrong? >> i'm saying skip in this instance might have waited a while, come outside, talked to the officer and that would have been the end of it. i think he should have reflected whether this was the time to make a big deal. but he was just home from china, just home from new york. he wanted to get to bed. his door was jammed. >> larry: some have said that he brings the history of the body into this black movement? >> that may have been the case. i think it might have been resolved in a different manner if we didn't have a verbal alteration between the two of them. my first teaching point for young people especially, not dr. gates. when the police are looking into something, if you're involved in it, cooperate, don't make the situation more difficult. i think in this case the situation was made more difficult on the part of the cambridge police department. once they felt they had to bring dr. gates out of the house and to handcuff him, i

he's former chief of staff for secretary of state colin powell. he served during the first term of the bush administration. colonel wilkerson, thank you very much for coming back on the show. nice to see you. >> thank you, rachel. >> we've heard all this speculation, all these leaks about what this program might have been. you were there in the first term of the bush administration. does any of this ring any bells in terms of what you knew about at the time? >> it does ring some bells. we, very early on, after 9/11, at the state department, learned from our ambassadors in the field that there were teams being dispatched to their cities, to their countries, and these teams were clandestine and essentially aimed at capturing al qaeda leaders or al qaeda affiliates and interrogating them and so forth. so the fact that it might have gravitated over to the cia or the cia might have joined in, which is something that happens a lot these days with delta force and other special operators is no surprise to me. but i take your same surprise, isn't that what

for colin powell to say that, think is a very big deal.nd you wonder if the republican party is going to think, you know, maybe we need to turn to someone like that. >> perhaps, leslie, that might cross someone's mind, until they thought about the fact that it was george w. bush and the republican-led congress that had amassed this huge debt, had spent this government into just an unsustainable structure. i mean, we have two parties to choose from. both seem hell-bent on bankrupting the nation. >> well, there's two -- there's a couple interesting parts there. let's not forget 1992 when you had ross perro and kind of the appeal to his candidacy was government deficits. it was spending. that was really what galvanized a lot of people, especially independent voters. you're going to see that again. i think you're on point there. it's not this $800 billion that we so loosely throw around. it's really -- >> leslie, i'm sorry -- >> -- $14 trillion -- >> noble defense of the republican party. so noted. mark, we're talking 2010, if i can be pedestr

. >> she doesn't want to be in the situation where colin powell was where everybody knew he and bush and cheney didn't agree, so overseas diplomats said, hey, who do you talk to? powell, ain't the go-to guy. it is hillary's interests for her to have a seamless relationship with the president. their disagreement has been over timing and iran and that statement of indignation but at the same time she came out forcefully and talked about how, don't think because we want to talk that we're going to be weak. that was the obama position during the debates you'll remember. she has signed on wholeheartedly. she's a worker. she's never a show horse compared to a workhorse, just unlike the speech making and -- chris: that's because -- kelly, this speech she gave this week a starter up of a higher profile. >> it wants to lay the groundwork for her. chris: so she can move bigger on the stage in the future than she's been. >> i think though, you're not going to see that much difference between him and her and the president. >> i think she's more show horse than you think. >> okay. >> when to star

and colin powell said talking about his own experiences.f these people are not making this up. to go 23 years ago to brawly, i mean try to find something this century, ann. we're talking about a problem -- >> it's a problem. >> well, the duke lacrosse case was not about profiling. that was about a report. you maybe need to find profiling -- but the racial profiling -- racial profiling is when there is an assumption made based on race when there is no one that is called in the report. and i think if you understood the definition, you could not deny it. >> larry: al, do you think it's possible -- do you think he was prigt whright when he said the professor overreacted? >> the question becomes, that's why you need to have law enforcement and all the forces stick. what is overreaction in your own home? we need to define that. is it possible? sure? what we need to do now is deal with the law. if you're in your house, someone comes to your door, you think it's the repairman, it is not. they order you out of the house. hover you respond, is that o

. >> listen to what secretary -- former secretary of state colin powell had to say on iran and that iant to talk about that country and the challenges going on there. >> iranians have unique ability to take anything we do that is critical of them and turn it against us and to mobilize their population against us. there is a churning taking place right now and i think it is best for us to watch this and let the iranians sort out where they are going. >> is secretary powell right? is less more for the moment? should the u.s. effectively hang back and see what happens? >> i think that clearly is the case. i agree with secretary powell. we have seen a good deal of turmoil, a crackdown on the rising dissent that is taking place in that country. for us to send any kind of city hall that we are in any way enthusiastically supporting this, i think, would turn against those who are trying to express their opposition to ahmadinejad and others in the claire cal rule. the best thing is watch it unfold and hope that we see the seed of democracy starting to spring forward and produce a different ir